A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-century Music: Edited by Stewart Carter

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Page 353While the double branle has "regular" phrases of four or eight measures, the
simple branle, also in duple meter, has phrase lengths of three or six measures to
accommodate the choreography. Music for the Burgundian branle occasionally
has ...

Page 354At century's end the entree (entree grave) was a slow duple-meter dance replete
with dotted rhythms; it was a technically complex yet majestic dance, usually for a
solo man. Forlana, forlane. This may have been a folk dance associated with ...

Page 358The term may be of either Italian or Spanish origin.86 Musical examples appear
early in the sixteenth century.87 This slow duple-meter dance is usually followed
by a triple-meter afterdance constructed from the same melodic and harmonic ...